#arksurvivalevolved

Lag spikes during a raid? Rubber-banding while taming? We've all been there. 🦕💥

If you're running ARK: Survival Ascended, you know that Unreal Engine 5 is beautiful, but it’s absolutely brutal on hardware. The sad truth is that standard shared hosting just can't keep up with large mod packs, cross-platform play, and high player counts anymore.

Why upgrade to a Dedicated Server? It’s simple: Raw Power. 💪

When you rent a dedicated server from COLO BIRD, you aren't sharing resources with hundreds of other random users. You get the entire machine to yourself.

✅ Zero Resource Contention: 100% of the CPU & RAM is yours.

✅ Massive Clusters: Host multiple maps on one machine with 128GB+ RAM.

✅ Total Control: Full root access to install any mod or script you want.

✅ DDoS Protection: 250Gbps protection to keep trolls out.

We just dropped a full guide on why dedicated hardware is the only way to "future-proof" your community for 2026.

🔗 Read the Full Guide on the COLO BIRD Blog

Thursday, March 21st:

(exclusive): 3 Body Problem (netflix, sci-fi series premiere, all 8 eps), ARK (Para+, animated series premiere, first 6 eps, based on video game)

(movies): "Road House" (APrime, reimagined classic movie remake), "Soul Mates" (BET+, horror), "Paradise" (TUBI, revenge crime thriller, ~85mins), "Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told" (hulu, documentary)

(streaming weekly): Halo (Para+, season 2 finale), Invincible (APrime), Delicious in Dungeon (netflix), Tokyo Vice (MAX), The Girls on the Bus (MAX), "Justice, USA" (MAX, next 2 parts), The Traitors UK (Peacock), Supa Girlz (AllBlk), Ruthless (BET+, season 4B finale), Diarra from Detroit (BET+, dark comedy mystery, first 3 eps), The Long Shadow (SundanceNow|AMC+, Yorkshire Ripper limited series premiere, first 2 eps)

(original made-for-TV movies): "My Father's Murder in Greece" (LMN, 2hrs), "Her Deadly Night in Paris" (LMN, later, 2hrs)

(hour 1): 9-1-1 (ABC, part 2 of 3), Law & Order (NBC), Hudson & Rex (UPtv), The Conners (theCW) / . / The Conners (theCW), Next Level Chef (FOX)

(hour 2): Grey's Anatomy (ABC), Law & Order: SVU (NBC), Son of a Critch (theCW) / . / Son of a Critch (theCW), "Where is Kate Middleton?" (FOX, a TMZ investigation special)

(hour 3): Station 19 (ABC), Law & Order: Organized Crime (NBC)

(hour 4 - latenight): Royal Crackers ([adultswim])